Hermann Ebbinghaus measured forgetting by:
A) measuring how long it took him to relearn a previously learned list.
B) measuring how long it took him to learn a list perfectly.
C) seeing how long a list he could remember after hearing the list just once.
D) counting the number of times he needed to hear a list before he could recall it perfectly.

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Ebbinghaus measured forgetting by calculating the reduction in the number of repetitions needed to relearn a list to the point of perfect recall, compared to the number of repetitions initially required to learn the list. This method allowed him to quantify the rate of forgetting over time.

Hermann Ebbinghaus Measured Forgetting By